Thursday, February 19, 2009

Ben's Quilt Top

I finished the top. I collected the fabric for this quilt for 7 months, so it is so much fun to finally see it come together and see all the colors mesh. Its very colorful, but I wanted something bright to compliment his neutral furniture. And, there's very little white in it, since it will be on a little boys bed. I used this pattern again, which I love. It ended up being a perfect X-Long Twin about 64" by 94" with some room for shrinkage.

Now the question is how should I quilt this? I was going to quilt in the ditch, and then maybe 1/4" around each square, which would take forever, but now I'm thinking I should just stipple the whole thing? Since its going to get A LOT of wear and tear on my son's bed, do you think stippling would make it more durable? I have some time to think about it I guess, but I would love any suggestions too!!! Happy Friday to you all!

I love this quilt. I'm not sure about top quilting in terms of durability. I am working on quilts for my kiddos as well. I don't care for stippling, but I'm sure I'll have my top-quilter do something a bit tighter than usual. I like your idea of stitching in the ditch, personally.

Oh I LOVE it! There's nothing I like more than a ton of different fabrics in one quilt - that still all work together! And I would stipple it. But I stipple EVERYTHING, so I'm kinda no help to you there... But it would look great stippled!

It looks lovely! But I think a different quilting as in the ditch could give more durability and originality to it. Have a look to the quilting way made to this bloggers: quiltit.blogspot.com and myauntjune.blospot.com . Easy and original!nichi

I don't have recommendations regarding durability and quilting, but I am a stitch-in-the-ditch fan. I just like to highlight the actual quilt itself, and your work here is so good already! The colors are wonderful, too.

LOVE it!!! Well done, it looks great!!! Im devastated that i just used the last of my american jane fabric that you used in the pic from WIP post. Its all gone from quilt shops too!! I just quilted a similar squared quilt, and i did a square 1/4 in the inner square then another 1/4 in from the next square. Looks great!! On a quilt like this i would even consider using some of that special top stitch fabric in red or something, it will end up looking like you hand quilted it all if you choose a wide stitch! Is Ben going to a BIG bed soon??